Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — Presbyterian Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

Presbyterian Church Notes.

The Subbath school was well attended on last Sunday and a good degree of interest was manifested by all in the lesson ,on ‘‘Christian Love."’ This school is doing good work and there is room for about a hundred more scholars, A supimer.campaign should bo inaugurated for gathering them in for Bible instruction- • Iq The Presbyterian church was crowded to overflowing On Sabbath afternoon, on the occasion of the funeral of Mr. John Yeoman, ft well known and highly respected citizen; whose death occured last Tuesday in Colorado. Whither, he had gone, just a week before in search of health, and whose remains were brought home for interment. He was a consistent and ; faithful member of the Free Will Bapti- t church. Rev. B. F. Ferguson, his former pastor preached an appropriate sermon, to which earnest attention was given by the large audience. On Sabbath evening Rev. Ferguson ! delived the first of a series of monthly | sermons to be delivered during the j seasons by the pastors of the churches, i under the auspices of the W. C. T. U.j He took the practical common sense j view Of the whole subject and made points worth heeding by all cn Temperance workers. - . * t ' , ‘ I At the close, Bro. Dwiggins made a stirring appeal to the Christian public for active work all along the line of Christian work, in the Sabbath school, churches.and Temperance cause. He made a good .point by telling us to • -seek-a-yevival-of our Sabbatb-aeheeF aad church .work and their Temperance would surely come to the front antPils cause must and would prevail. r. . . ; t* " ‘ '? ..... ■< /'■■■l o' •». In the morning Rev. Small presented the of- preachiag the -'“Cospel'’ as the divinely appointed means of saving men from sin and the only method which God will bless for that end. —Text I Cor. I ill